Literature And Religion In Mid Victorian England
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Author | : C. Oulton |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2002-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333993378 |
This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.
Author | : C. Oulton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230504647 |
This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.
Author | : Krishan Lal Kalla |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9788170991557 |
Author | : Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2019-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532677960 |
A comprehensive history of religion in Victorian England, covering such topics as religion and science, religion and society, the press, literature and art, worship, new critical methods, federation and reunion, showing both the relationship between the churches and the society in which they existed and also the major movements within the churches.
Author | : Richard Foulkes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997-06-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521453202 |
During the reign of Queen Victoria, herself an ardent theatregoer as well as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, a remarkable rapprochement was effected between the Church and the stage. This 1997 book explores the implications for the theatre of the great religious movements of the period: Tractarianism, Christian Socialism and Latitudinarianism. This central relationship is seen in the context of other important themes in Victorian cultural history such as censorship, urbanization, transport, leisure, self-improvement and women's emancipation. The volume contains portraits of significant churchmen, dramatists, actors and actresses, including Newman and Keble, Bulwer Lytton and Shaw, Irving, Fanny Kemble and Ellen Terry. They were amongst the influential figures who participated in the search for a common culture which preoccupied the nineteenth century. To the Victorians the Church and the theatre were important parts of everyday life; in this study the two institutions are explored in relation not only to each other but also to the social, economic and intellectual movements of the period.
Author | : Hilary Fraser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521073110 |
This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.
Author | : Elisabeth Jay |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Norman Vance |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1985-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521303877 |
This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century life by examining the nature and context of 'Christian manliness' or 'muscular Christianity', an ideal of conduct that was widely popular with Victorian preachers and writers. It pays particular attention to Charles Kingsley (author of The Water-Babies) and Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays). Dr Vance traces the origins of Christian manliness in the traditions of English sporting prowess, in notions of chivalry and gentlemanliness, and in the preaching of vigourous virtue from St Paul to Victorian evangelists. He also considers the social and religious thought of Coleridge, Carlyle, F. D. Maurice and Thomas Arnold, showing how Kingsley and Hughes developed their own ideals of Christian manliness against this background, and in keen response to the troubles of their time: social unrest, religious rancour, war and disease. A final chapter traces the fragmentation and debasement of the ideal in the twentieth century.
Author | : Julie Melnyk |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Religion permeated almost every aspect of Victorian life and culture, from Parliamentary politics to issues of marriage and sexuality, from class relations to literature and the life of the imagination. In order to understand Victorian culture and writings, modern readers need to understand Victorian religion in its public and its private aspects. But much in Victorian religious life can be baffling for modern readers. The sheer diversity of Victorian religious experience is one source of confusion. Also, doctrinal disputes and discoveries in science or textual criticism that loomed so large for Victorian Christians are now hard for most people to appreciate. The Anglican Church, its hierarchy, and its enormous range of ecclesiastical titles open up further opportunities for confusion. Here, Melnyk offers a lively, thorough introduction to Victorian religious life, including the period between 1828 and 1901. Making sense of the diversity of religious thought and experience in Victorian Britain, she provides readers with a clear understanding of its role in the family and for the individual, the community, and society at large. This entertaining, readable introduction to Victorian religious life and controversies is ideal for anyone interested in Victorian life, literature, and culture.
Author | : Joshua King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814255292 |
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.